My crime novel Mean Business on North Ganson Street is now available from St. Martin's Press/Thomas Dunne.

"Whether writing westerns, science fiction, or crime, Zahler (Corpus Chrome, Inc., 2013) always manages to bring something new to the genre. This time its the most shambolically dying Rust Belt city in crime fiction. Zahlers mean streets are bizarrely mean. But Mean Business is often mordantly funny, tooand not to be missed." Thomas Gaughan, Booklist, Starred Review

"Zahler means business all right. As funny as it is moving and as tender as it is violent, Mean Business On North Ganson Street is a superb police thriller that carries serious emotional heft."Allan Guthrie, Edgar-nominated author of Slammer

"Zahler evocatively illustrates a city on the verge of moral and economic collapse..."Associated Press

"Zahler tells a gripping story."Kirkus Review

"[A] grim, brilliantly imagined work."bookreporter.com

My dark western novel Wraiths of the Broken Land is now widely available..

"Zahler's a fabulous story teller whose style catapults his reader into the turn of the century West with a ferocious sense of authenticity." Kurt Russell, star of Tombstone, Escape from New York, Dark Blue, and Death Proof

"It would be utterly insufficient to say that WRAITHS is the most diversified and expertly written western Ive ever read." Edward Lee, author of The Bighead and Gast.

"If youre looking for something similar to what youve read before, this aint it. If you want something comforting and predictable, this damn sure aint it. But if you want something with storytelling guts and a weird point of view, an unforgettable voice, then you want what I want, and that is this." Joe R. Lansdale, author of The Bottoms, Mucho Mojo, and Savage Season

"WRAITHS always rings true, whether it's visiting the depths of despair, the fury of violence, or the fragile ties that bind us together for good or ill. It's a Western with heart and intelligence, always vivid, with characters you will detest or care about or both, powerfully written." Jack Ketchum, author of Off Season and The Girl Next Door

"Wraiths of the Broken Land is a classic Western that's been twisted into the shape of a snarling monster, shot full of violence, anger, and pain, and dipped in horror. [I]t will please fans of crime, horror, dark fantasy, and literary fiction alike. It's a brutal and wonderfully gritty tale full of darkness and superb writing." Gabino Iglesias, Out Of The Gutter Online